How to get someone off property

[mhallgren2005]

What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Colorado
My boyfriend bought a home with a previous girlfriend in 1985. In 1997 she left and moved in with another man and has not returned. She never paid anything into the house before or after leaving but refuses to take her name off the title. What are his options? He sold a motorcycle he owned previous to living with her to build a barn on the property. Can she lay claim to half of everything he has during the time she lived with him? Can either of them force the other to sell the property? She has no children. If she died would he have to deal with her family members to settle the issue?
Mary

 

[FarmerJ]

A atty can do a partition suit, wich is a court ordered division of property. I suspect a partition suit will go much easier if he has 24 years of reciepts to prove he made all the payments. HE should try the links above to locate a real estate atty and get a consultation.

 

[mhallgren2005]

Off Property

He doesn't want to sell so a partition suit isn't an option. What other ways is there to get someone's name off a property?

 

[divgradcurl]

He doesn't want to sell so a partition suit isn't an option. What other ways is there to get someone's name off a property?

Buy her signature. Try and negotiate a settlement so that she will sign off on her part of the property.

She either has to sign over her interest in the property, or you have to get a court to order a partition. There isn't any other way to make this happen.

And yep, if she died, her interest would go to her heirs, whoever that might be -- unless the house is titled as joint tenants with rights of survivorship, in which case he would get her interest in the house after her death. I guess that's the one other way to get her off of the title, assuming that the house is titled as joint tenants.

Remember, too, she doesn't have to die -- she could sell her half to someone else. She also has a right to occupy the dwelling as well.